March 18, 2019
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Dixon
907-479-4306
Four schools receive first-place votes
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TRINITY (TEXAS) TOPS NCBWA
D3BASEBALL.COM DIVISION III POLL

DALLAS (NCBWA) – The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll. Weekly polls continue through the NCAA Division III Championship.

The D3baseball.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, Sports Information Directors and media members from across the country, and is published weekly.

Rk. School [1st place] Location Record Pts. Pvs.
1. Trinity [18] San Antonio, Texas 15-3 616 3
2. Christopher Newport Newport News, Va. 13-2 578 4
3. Wooster [3] Wooster, Ohio 4-2 539 1
4. Concordia-Chicago [1] River Forest, Ill. 8-1 529 7
5. Randolph-Macon Ashland, Va. 5-2 456 5
6. Rowan [3] Glassboro, N.J. 3-2 455 2
7. Swarthmore Swarthmore, Pa. 7-3 448 8
8. Texas Lutheran Seguin, Texas 12-5 380 6
9. Johns Hopkins Baltimore, Md. 10-3 359 9
10. Southern Maine Gorham, Maine 4-1 313 12
11. Concordia Austin, Texas 16-3 302 13
12. Webster St. Louis, Mo. 10-3 299 15
13. Huntingdon Montgomery, Ala. 16-3 288 11
14. Chapman Orange, Calif. 12-5 232 10
15. UW-Whitewater Whitewater, Wis. 1-2 223 14
16. Cal Lutheran Thousand Oaks, Calif. 12-4 218 19
17. Methodist Fayetteville, N.C. 17-3 212 21
18. Adrian Adrian, Mich. 7-1 165 -
19. Piedmont Demorest, Ga. 16-6 153 20
20. Salisbury Salisbury, Md. 11-4-1 149 22
21. Babson Babson Park, Mass. 5-2 128 -
22. UMass-Boston Boston, Mass. 4-4 110 18
23. Birmingham-Southern Birmingham, Ala. 15-6 108 23
24. LaGrange LaGrange, Ga. 15-6 106 -
25. Cortland Cortland, N.Y. 7-6-1 87 16
Also receiving votes: Saint John's (Minn.) 67, Keystone 64, Wheaton (Mass.) 62, Heidelberg 53, Washington (Mo.) 52, TCNJ 45, North Central (Ill.) 37, Kean 37, St. John Fisher 35, Washington College 33, La Roche 29, Oswego State 26, Berry 23, Hendrix 20, Denison 16, Aurora 10, William Paterson 8, Trinity (Conn.) 8, Baldwin Wallace 7, Marian (Wis.) 6, Shenandoah 6, Saint Joseph's (Me.) 5, Fontbonne 4, Ithaca 2, Coe 1, Stockton 1.
Dropped out: No. 17 Keystone, No. 24 Kean, No. 25 Wheaton (Mass.)

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2019 NCBWA Division III Polls (No. 1 Team):
Preseason (Wooster)
Feb. 25 (Wooster)
March 4 (Wooster)
March 11 (Wooster)
March 18 (Trinity, Texas)
March 25 (Christopher Newport)
April 1 (Christopher Newport)
April 8 (Concordia-Chicago)
April 15 (Concordia-Chicago)
April 22 (Concordia-Chicago)
April 29 (Concordia-Chicago)
May 6 (Concordia-Chicago)
May 13 (Christopher Newport)
Final (Chapman)